The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in VenezuelaUniversity of Chicago Press, 1997 M11 10 - 447 páginas In 1935, after the death of dictator General Juan Vicente Gómez, Venezuela consolidated its position as the world's major oil exporter and began to establish what today is South America's longest-lasting democratic regime. Endowed with the power of state oil wealth, successive presidents appeared as transcendent figures who could magically transform Venezuela into a modern nation. During the 1974-78 oil boom, dazzling development projects promised finally to effect this transformation. Yet now the state must struggle to appease its foreign creditors, counter a declining economy, and contain a discontented citizenry. In critical dialogue with contemporary social theory, Fernando Coronil examines key transformations in Venezuela's polity, culture, and economy, recasting theories of development and highlighting the relevance of these processes for other postcolonial nations. The result is a timely and compelling historical ethnography of political power at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary reflections on modernity and the state. |
Contenido
General Juan Vicente Gómez with family and friends | 19 |
Plaque commemorating the initiation of oil production | 79 |
Students from the Generation of 28 | 98 |
The Gómez family mausoleum | 114 |
General Marcos Pérez Jiménez in front of his home in Spain | 131 |
General Marcos Pérez Jiménez receiving gifts | 169 |
Mobilization against General Marcos Pérez Jiménez | 203 |
Front page of El Nacional 23 January 1958 | 213 |
Carlos Andrés Pérez and his cabinet | 236 |
Roberto Madero of the Ministry of Development | 267 |
President Carlos Andrés Pérez and FANATRACTOs president | 288 |
the empty factory | 316 |
Gladys de Carmona displaying her husbands briefcases | 322 |
Gladys de Carmona and Mayra Vernet de Molina | 340 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela Fernando Coronil Vista previa limitada - 1997 |
The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela Fernando Coronil Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |
The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela Fernando Coronil Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |
Términos y frases comunes
AD's agricultural Andean Pact auto automobile Banco Latino became Campetti capital capitalist Caracas Carlos Andrés Pérez Carmona commodities COPEI coup cultural democracy democratic dictatorship domestic economic El Nacional election electoral elite engine established Eugenio Mendoza expanded export FANATRACTO forces foreign Gallegos global Gómez Guayana region important income interview investment Juan Vicente Gómez junta labor Latin America leaders López major Marcos Pérez Jiménez Marx Mendoza ment military minister modern Molina murder nature oil boom oil companies oil industry oil money oil nation OPEC party Pegaso percent Pérez Jiménez perspective petroleum political popular President Pérez production profits promotion Quijada Rafael Caldera regime relations rent Resúmen role Rómulo Betancourt rule significant Skurski social society sought state's steel structure struggle subaltern third-world tion tractors transformation transnational Vallenilla vehicle Vene Venezuela wealth zuela
Referencias a este libro
Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World Michel-Rolph Trouillot Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |